52/4
These Wednesdays seem to come round awfully quickly.
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
Robert Graves
I once caught one of them in the bathroom, scratching up a pair of hearts conjoined, with Dick's initials and mine above them. I pushed him into hte bath and turned the taps on.
I first read this about 20 years ages ago. I've read it several times, it's a great book. What has struck me today, as I took it down off the shelf, is how small the print is. I CAN read print this small, but have often, in recent years, put books back on the shelf in bookshops because of it. Not comfortable, you see. Ha! I don't know, it is just funny to have in my hand proof of a time when such things didn't bother me.
4 comments:
You know I have books like that...Thy Servant a Dog is one of my favorites. I have a kindle and love it, but there's nothing like the smell of ink paper and the feel of a nicely bound book..
hugs
Sandi
Your previous comments about your new Kindle got to me, Helena! My new Kindle arrived last week, and I'm really enjoying it.
My 52/4 this week is from 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' by John Buchan:
"No him. He's just been a week at the job. He rins about in a wee motor-cawr, and wad speir the inside out o' a whelk."
Have to confess not read your book - will look for a charity shop copy in not too small a print :)
My offering is here :-
http://blue-startingover.blogspot.com/2012/03/524-book-meme-week-13.html
Sandi,
I agree. I love the smell of old books. I love to kill a rainy afternoon browsing in a secondhand bookshop :)
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Eileen,
I hope you and your kindle will be very happy together :) I love the way you can increase the font on these things. ANOTHER thing is that I am not put off a book by how thick it is any more (hahaha I mean it, it's true. More than an inch thick and I have to be really keen to read it). I downloaded a free copy of Les Miserables and am enjoying it, then I discovered the paper version is over 700 pages long. I would never have picked it up if I'd seen it!
39 Steps.... always makes me think of Robert Powell :)
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Will nip over right away, BLue!
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